Toy savings-bank



(No Model.)

' G. G. GLOVER.

TOY SAVINGS BANK.

No. 579.058. PatentedMarQ16, 1897.

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CHARLES G. GLOVER, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY SAVINGS-BANK.

SPECIFIGATION fOrming part of Letters Patent N 0. 579,058, dated March 16, 1897. Application filed January 30, 1896. Serial No. 577,418. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. GLOVER, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Savings- Banks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a toy savings-bank, one that can be made at small cost and one suitable for advertisements to be printed thereon, and being made at such small cost can be given away for advertising purposes and destroyed when desirous of removing the money, &c.; and the invention consists of a toy savings-bank constructed and arranged for use, substantially as hereinafter fully de scribed, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which is illustrated a toy savings-bank constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 1 is a front View. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the bank in its closed position. Fig. 3 is an end view with the bank opened out. Fig. i is a central vertical section of the bank in its opened-out position, and Fig. 5 is a detail cross-section.

In the drawings, Arepresents a toysavingsbank which is formed of a strip of cardboard or other suitable sheet material folded central across its width at B, making two leaves C D, which are preferably of the same length.

Attached to the tWo leaves on their inner sides is a receptacle E, made in the present instance of flexible material, such as thin soft paper, and which can be made in the usual form of a paper bag folded by side folds F, as in Fig. 5, and by the usual bottom fold G, as in cross-section in Fig. 2.

The upper open end of the paper bag is secured by paste or suitable adhesive material to and between the two leaves at their upper parts, so that the open end of the receptacle will be entirely sealed.

Through one, C, of the leaves and the side H of the bag secured thereto is cut a horizontal slit or opening J of sufficient length and width for the pieces of money to be put into the receptacle. The bank thus made can be folded flat, as shown in Fig. 2, or it can be opened out for use by separating the lower ends, which are allowed to open far enough to stand the bank up, using the leaves for a stand when the receptacle is opened, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

It is preferable to make the bank of cardboard or paper sheets, as it can be made thus cheaply, the cardboard being of sufficient thickness to make them stiff and serve as supports, while the receptacle can be made of thin soft paper to be more pliable and easily folded or closed upon itself when the leaves are closed upon themselves to make the bank compact and close for transportation, the.

Obviously any suitable material can be used, although it is desirable that a flexible sheet material should be used for the receptacle; also, the receptacle can be made in any suitable manner that will allow it to be opened out more or less and be folded in any suitable manner, such, for instance, as a sealed envelop, which can be secured by paste at one end to the leaves, leaving the lower portion free, so it will open more or less when the leaves are opened out, as shown, and so it can also be closed upon itself.

To remove the coin from the receptacle, it can be destroyed, as its cost of manufacture is so small.

Any suitable matter can be printed upon the outsides of the leavespictures or any ornamentation desired so it can serve as an advertisement to be given away by the advertiser freely.

The slit J can be on either side alone or on both sides; also, it is preferable to secure the side of the receptacle in which is the slit, all round the slit, to the card or leaf to insure that the money will not come out through the slit in the bag by reason of its flexibility.

Only one leaf need be used, the bag or re ceptacle being secured to it so its upper end will be closed, and in such case the bag itself when opened out would serve with the front card as a means of its support.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a toy savings-bank, the combination of a stiif paper board folded centrally upon itself, and a receptacle formed of flexible material having closed sides and bottom and attached at its upper end to the inner adjacent faces of the folded paper board at or near the folded portion, and a slit or opening formed and a slit or opening formed in the paper IO in one side of said folded board and the corboard and bag, substantially as described.

responding side of the receptacle, substan- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set tially as described. my hand in the presence of tWo subscribing 5 2. In a toy savings-bank, the combination Witnesses.

of a stiff paper board folded upon itself cen- CHARLES G. GLOVER.

trally, and a flexible bag attached at its upper \Vitnesses:

end to the inner adjacent faces of the folded EDWIN WV. BROWN,

paper board at or near the folded portion, LEONA O. ARNO. 

